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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 131, 1924
LEPER MISSION JUBILKL.
Certain Betish missionaries were determined that such an outrage should not take place again. A remarkable charge had caken place in the attitude of the officials towards the lepers of South China. The spirit of hostility was gradually being one of mercy and transformed intu charity, and the leper was receiving civic attention. The Mission to Lepers is now working at ninety-five stations in thirteen different countries. GLASGOW TO CHINA.
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The jubilee of the Mission to Lepers has been celebrated in Scotland, and a large demonstration was held in Edin- burgh. Dr. Thomas Cochrane, founder and principal of the Union Medical College, Peking, and hon. secretary of the British advisory Board on atedical Missions, was the principal speaker. He EDINBURGH, October sth.
stated that the work of the alission now the Most people have by now reached the embraced India, Siam, Malaya, conclusion that the housing problem can Southern Pacific, China, Korea, Japan, America and Paris, Aue apanese Gov- not be solved by existing methods, and
ernment was begining to take an in- under Trade Union restrictions, at n terest in it. Describing the work in reasonable cost and within a reasonable Korea, ho aid that the treatment there was producing wonderful results, and was period of time. The rost hopeful pro-
a great contribution to seientine progress. posal yet made towards overcoming the Last year about 200 lepers had been dis- difficulties of labour and of materials is charged "from the asylums without any trace of the disease. They were now Fundoubtedly that for the constructions of making a survey we world to find out houses made of steel plates. Lord Weir all they could about leprosy. The Rey, and the Duke of Atholl have taken up. Clarris'spoke of the work in South the project with pioneering and patriotic China. In 1912, he said, 30 lepers were there driven into a pit by order of enthusiasm, and Scotland, indeed, isomielaidom, shot and burnt. leading in this matter. The steel Equse has now become a practicable proposition. Other methods that have been tried, such as the use of concrete instead of stone or bricks, have met the difficulty with res gard to the scarcity of brickinyers, but ouce the outer walls have been construct ed by sani-skilled or crdinary labour the necessity remains for other skilled work ers plasterers, sluters, joiners, and an-to complete the house, and, the num ber of these tradesmen is as severely limited by the Trade Unions as in the case of ricklayers. The advantage of Mr. James A. Dunachie, of 3, Wiltou the steel plate system is that it will dis Drive, Glasgow, is sailing for China on pense, with skilled building, tradesinen: October 25th to commence work under It is true that skilled labour will be re- the China Inland Mission. Mr. Dunachic, quired to make the steel plates, but this who is a native of Glasgow, was for should be readily available, for the iron several years on the staff of the Hillhead and steel trade has been hard hit by Branch of the British Linen Bank. After the industral depression, and so the receiving his banking diploma he entered many unemployed in that trade have the the Bible Training Institute, Glasgow,. Other where he has just completed his train- prospect of finding useful work. advantages of the scheme are that it prang. He is a member of St. George's- mises to be able to produce houses in Cross Tabernacle, Glasgow, which has large quantities, in quick time, and at a sent out 31 missionaries to various parts reduced cust. This result can be achiev of the world. ed by the principle of mass production. The steel houses will be entirely manufac
Lady deer-stalkers have figured pro- tured in the workshop, except for a few internal fittings. Once the site has been ruinently in the Highland forests this prepared, it is stated, the bouse will be autumn. New records have been estab- ready for the tenant eight days from its shed, and the achievements of the lady
Standardisation of de- commencement.
shots compare very favourably with scme sacrifice of in-those of the men. True, none of them sign may mean dividuality, but more than one type will has quite equalled the fine exploits of be available, and in view of the para Sir George A. Cooper, who in Ceannacroe mount necessity for habitable houses of Forest had 20 stags to his own ride, while any kind asthetic considerations are in his son's trophies included a magnificent this matter of secondary importance. head of thirteen points, but the record It is apparent that the several schemes of the Hon. Averil Furness, daughter of for the rapid mass production of working. Lord Furness, has, nevertheless, a dis- class dwelling-houses which have been tinctive uiche of its own in the annals formulated by inventive minds in Glasgow of modern sport. Miss Furness, who last and district are regarded by the Govern year shot her first stag at the age of ment authorities responsible for the 15, won fresh laurels this season by bring. housing policy of the nation as holding ing down four stags with four shota in promise of a solution of the most im- one day in the Alfaric Forest in Inver mediately pressing problem which faces ness-shire. That is even better than the! them at the moment, the "speedy con- achievement of the Hon. Mrs. MacDonald struction and completion of houses in large Buchanan, who last year won fame by numbers. The Minister of Health, Mr.killing three stags with three successive Wheatley, and his lieutenant. Mr. James shots. Last year, Bliss Furness grassed Stewart, the Under Secretary of the three stags in the course of a single after- Scottish Board of Health, have already noon. To another lady, Mrs. liell, has inspected personally the various speci fallen the distinction of bringing down men types of houses built in Glasgow in the heaviest stag of the season-a magni- scaling 20 8.8 lbs. other materials and by other means than firent "Royal the conventional materials and methods It was shot in Guisachan Forest in In- of the building trades. It is probably verness-shire, where Mrs. Bell had also significant of the favourable impression another fine monarch of the glen weigh- created on the minds of those Ministers ing 17 st. 12 lbs. Curionaly enough, a of the potentialities of the new schemes lady stalker also carried off the blue that the expert' committee appointed by riband last year in respect of weight, Mr. Wheatley to advise him with regard when Lady Fowler, at Braemore in loss. to new methods and materials of build-shire, killed a great stag which turned ing construction have taken the earliest the scales at, 20 st. 6 lbs. Mrs. Beli has. possible opportunity of visiting Glasgow however, beaten that achievement by a In Struy Forest, to inspect the specimen houses, and to couple of pounds.
Baroness. Dingwall and her party have gather information from the inventors of
had a fine "bag" of 35 stags for the All the details of their proposals.
lbs. season. the heaviest weighing 17 st.
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One of the features of the mass P Lady Evelyn. Cobbold, sister of the Earl duction of steel houses which appeals of Dunmore, V.C., who purchased the most strongly to the public mind at the estate of Glencarron, in Ross-shire, from moment is the relief which it would afford Lord Wimborne three years ago, has also
in the forests.
to the load of unemployment in the court had some good sport on the moors and
try by the absorption of large masses of unskilled labour in work of pressing national urgency and importance without disturbing the labour market in the build- ing industries.
A NEW SCOTS DICTIONARY.
A LAST FLING,
This incident is given on trustworthy authority is having recently occurred in n West End nursing home in Glasgow. A nurse reported to the matron the ar Dr. Craigie, joint-editor of the New rival of an incoherent patient, who could English Dictionary, and Professor of give no account of himself xcept that Angio-Saxon in the University of Oxford Ee was expected that afternoon. As it is delivering a series of lectures on the happened two patients were expected. Scottish tongue in six Scottish centres. The description of the man was telephon- his object being to ealist volunteers for ed to the doctor of the first, who said it the preparation of a new Scottish Dic didn't tally, but the second doctor ad- tionary. Dr. Jamieson's well-known mitted that it was correct, and advised Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish him to Be put to bed. Poor fellow!" Language, published originally as long he said. "He's nervous about his ope- ago as 1808, is now out of date. A Scots-ration and he's been having a last fling." man and a Bordertz, born near Hawick, The man and his handbag were taken Sir James Murray had, in 187, laid into the patient's room. Obviously he the foundations of the scientific study of had been drunk when he packed the bag,
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